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Sarah DAWSON |
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Freelance Journalist |
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UK journalist based in Brighton. |
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E-mail
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sarah@sarahdawsonjournalist.com |
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Website 1
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www.sarahdawsonjournalist.com |
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Website 2
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Biography |
Experienced freelance journalist writing travel, health & lifestyle features for national and international press/websites.
Sarah's passion for travel and adventure began after an inspirational and bumpy ride on Alton Towers 'Around the World in 80 days' at the impressionable age of seven. After a backpacking trip in Australia via South East Asia Sarah studied journalism in London and has been a freelance journalist since 1997.
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Main professional activities |
Writes travel, health & lifestyle features for national and international press and websites - plus digital photography.
Visits spas, health resorts and retreats worldwide seeking unique, holistic and downright quirky therapies. Has tried all types of detoxes from Ayurveda Panchakarma to the "Mayr Cure".
Provides web content about medical tourism (cosmetic surgery/dentistry and medical spas) for treatmentabroad.net and privatehealth.co.uk websites.
Also writes short snappy TV scripts for web-based travel programmes.
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Memberships |
National Union of Journalists (NUJ), International Travel Writers Alliance, Society of Authors, Women in Journalism (WIJ), Travelwriters UK. |
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Awards |
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Most recent publications |
Red Magazine, Spirit and Destiny, Real Travel, Treatmentabroad.net (medical tourism content), Living France, Kindred Spirit, Yoga Magazine. |
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Other important publications |
Guardian Unlimited, Spain Magazine, Spanish Homes, Women's Health and Glamour. |
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Areas of particular interest or expertise |
Sarah adapts to many different travel scenarios from sleeping in a rustic hut in the jungle to five star luxury!
She has ridden on the backseat of a motorbike around Madrid, snorkelled in Open Water with dolphins in the Azores, spent a month in a monastic Indian Ashram to train as a yoga teacher, and most summers will take to her tent at The Big Chill music festival.
In 2007 Sarah undertook an independent trip to Southern India (Jan to Mar 07) travelling from Bombay through Goa, Karnataka and Kerala to follow ancient Ayurvedic programmes, seek eco resorts and cruise the Keralan Backwaters on a more ecologically-sound village canoe.
Sarah enjoys spending time in India and Australia, and has lived in Sydney for various periods of her life.
She also regularly visits France and Spain, among other parts of Europe. |
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Other relevant information |
Speaks reasonable French and basic Spanish, always better after a glass of Sangria or vino!
Sarah is efficient, competent, organised - and very nice to deal with!
She also supplies digital photography, see her website's gallery section. |